Diamyn Hall
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Mick Unplugged · Diamyn Hall | From Paralysis to Purpose: Diamyn Hall's Journey · 14 Dec 2024
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I remember in that moment, I got lightheaded. I had to sit down and I was thinking to myself, what in the world am I going to do now?
Yeah.
Like I'm supposed to be the one to provide for my family. I'm supposed to be the one to get to the NFL. I'm supposed to be the one to make all of this money so our family can be great and life can be awesome. What am I going to do now? I've put all of my time, all of my effort, all of my energy into this game. Nothing else. Just this game. I get there early before everybody else.
I stay later than everybody else. I put in more effort. I study film more than anybody else. That game that I just had, we had Ohio State there. There was Cincinnati there, Alabama. I was born to do this. This is who I am. I am a football player.
And so I remember over the next few months, it was one of the wildest months I've ever had in my life because I was, what I was doing was I was having like, my identity was gone. Yeah. When you asked me who was Diamond Hall at that time when I'm 14, being one of the best running backs in the country, I'm going to tell you I'm a football player. I'm a running back. I'm a stud, right? Yeah.
That's what's coming out of my mouth. At the time, did I know what it meant to tie those things to my identity? I had no idea. And so what I was going through was my identity was gone. So I had to develop a new identity. And I remember coming across a leadership coach at the time. And he reached out to me and he was like, Diamond, I want to work with you. I know who you are.
But I think I think I've got some things that can help you through this time frame and weaponize you for the things that you're about to have to endure. And for the potential that you have and who you can become was open to it. One of the best leadership coaches in the world. And he walked me through this exercise and I'll never forget this framework that he shared with me that I now share with.
all the athletes that I work with. He was like, the reason why this is so tough for you, it's not because of the time. It's not because of the effort. It's not because of all of the energy that you put into this game. What it is that you're going through and that it's so tough for you to get through, it's your identity. You believe you are a football player and that's not true.
He said, I want to share with you a framework, a three-step framework that I share with all of my highest performing athletes around the world that allow them to be the 1% of the 1%. He said, there are three identities that you have to adopt from this day forward, only if you're willing to though.
He said, number one, you have to be willing to look yourself in the mirror and say, I am a lifelong learner. I am a goal grower. Okay, I already do that. I got it. He said, number two, you have to be willing to look at yourself in the mirror and say, I am a lifelong achiever. I am a go-getter. I said, I can do that. I've done that. But you're saying I got to adopt this to my identity, to who I am.
He's like, yes. He was like, this third thing is the thing that people typically miss. And some people throughout the course of their life, they never adopt this into who they are. And I leaned in and he goes, I am a go-giver. I am a lifelong contributor, meaning you are everything that you do comes from a foundation of service, servant leadership, contribution, adding value, giving.
He said, if you can adopt these three identities, you will be perfectly fine for the rest of your life, no matter what life throws at you, no matter what you do, no matter what you want to be the best in the world at. He was like, are you committed to adopting these three identities? And in that moment, I felt like I was becoming somebody totally new. I said, absolutely.
And so what I didn't realize at the time is that something that I realize now and something I know now that research tells us is that our behavior does not drive our performances. Our identity does. That's right. And so with those three identities that I adopted totally changed my world forever. And so if you're listening to this right now, I want to ask you a question.
I want to ask you, who are you? When somebody says, who are you? What do you say? For me, I don't say I'm a mental performance coach for the Baltimore Orioles. I don't say I'm a speaker. I don't say I'm an author. I don't say I don't say any of those things. I say I'm a giver. I'm a learner and I'm an achiever. Nothing more, nothing less.
But it wasn't until I asked myself, it wasn't until I was posed these questions. And for you, if you're listening right now, it's not until you ask yourself and you get a sheet of paper, you get a sheet of paper, a notebook, and you write down the question at the top.
Who am I?
And you get in bullet point format and you actually list off what comes to mind for you. Then you'll be able to see where you stand. and what things you need to adjust in order to become the best version of yourself. Because I'll share this with you. One of the things that most people don't know is that the version that you're currently experiencing right now is not the best version of you.
In fact... There is a version of you that exists right now that is 100 times better than the version of you that you're currently experiencing. The question that you have to ask yourself is, what are you willing to do? Who are you willing to become? To get there, right? To get there, to unlock that version of yourself. And so that's my long-winded way of sharing with you how I got here.
I appreciate you asking me that question.
In that moment, the because was... It was my family. It was my mom. It was my little brother.
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